Research Blog

Many books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, and maps have and are being digitized to make them viewable online on the relatively new website, Indiana Memory, http://www.in.gov/memories . You can search by broad topic or by keyword. The Indiana State...

The person who apparently gained access to Sarah Palin's e-mail account says it was easy -- the governor answered her "security questions" factually, and they were easily researched. This might make you wonder about how secure your accounts...

Early voting for the November 4 election will be held at the following EVPL branches from Tuesday, October 14 through Friday, October 31: Central, Oaklyn, North Park, Red Bank and McCollough. You must be a resident of Vanderburgh County and have a valid...

October 6th is the deadline to register to vote if you're planning to vote in the 2008 election on November 4th. That's less than three weeks from now, so if you haven't registered yet, check out the links below to get started! Indiana Voter...

First off, I should explain that "hacking" no longer necessarily carries a negative connotation. In fact, its original negative connotation was a kind of misunderstanding. "To hack" means to come up with a creative or clever solution...

On Friday, September 19, shortly after closing at 6:00pm, the following sections of our website will be unavailable due to site maintenance: My Account Online Catalog AquaBrowser We'll be updating library software to fix issues our users have encountered...

In the wake of Hurricane Ike there are many who have not been able to make contact with loved ones in the affected areas. The Red Cross has set up a good site, the Safe and Well List , which allows those in the disaster area to register and then their...

I've been looking for a good reason to link to The Big Picture, and Hurricane Ike is it. The Big Picture is a remarkable photo blog from the Boston Globe , intended to highlight quality imagery of current interest. This site is worth checking out...

If, like me, you're keeping an eye on the coastal hurricane activity these days, you'll be interested in a Web site called Stormpulse . You'll find a huge amount of hurricane information there, from as far back as 1851. Great maps, satellite...

My all-time favorite gardening website is that of the Missouri Botanical Garden . I'm a frequent visitor to the Plantfinder and Plants of Merit databases accessible on its Gardening Help page as I look for trees, shrubs, and perennials that are well...

I'm an avid blog reader (you don't want to know how many unread posts I have in my feed reader, but let's just say I don't anticipate ever running out of reading material), and I love running across stuff about this amazing planet we live...

In interesting news for newspaper historians, Google has decided that it is no longer happy to simply own everything presently on Earth, but also any memory of what used to be around . Similar to their past scholarly endeavors , the search engine giant...

Rosetta Stone has changed its licensing restrictions with version 3 and no longer allows purchase of their CD-ROM products that could be checked out by library patrons. Unfortunately, because of these new restrictions, we've had to withdraw them from...

It has long been an issue here at the public libraries to determine which addresses fall within Vanderburgh county and which do not. The school corporation, however, has offered up a solution with their District Address Handbook . Here one can find a...

The Quitclaim Deed is a legal form that we are asked about quite frequently. Just this morning a customer came in to get a copy of a Quitclaim Deed. The Recorder's Office told her to go to the library to get a copy of the form. I was glad that she...